Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[Pickman's model]

Cue shrieking about every single business leaving the City.

That boy has cried wolf too often already

 

[DaphneM]

I think it is unlikely to be Boris.

It might be!

 

[8ball]

It might be!

To be fair, I wouldn't totally rule anything out.

 

[two sheds]

What's the original source for this story?

I'm a little skeptical that Corbyn would choose the Mail to announce his plans to run as London Mayor.

I saw it in the Huff Post

Jeremy Corbyn's time is up this morning/last night.

 

[DaphneM]

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[SpookyFrank]

Could easily be Corbyn vs Johnson for London mayor

 

[Brainaddict]

Being serious, I think Corbyn has been too personally vilified to be able to win London mayor easily. He might need second preferences of lib dem types and wouldn't get them. John McDonnell might have more of a chance but only if he had some very media savvy people working with him.

 

[brogdale]

Jeremy corbyn is 100% the reason we ended up with Boris.

God knows who we would get for mayor if he ran,

Johnson.

 

[brogdale]

Could easily be Corbyn vs Johnson for London mayor

Nah, Starmer would put up a LP candidate...so Johnson would walk it.

 

[IC3D]

So the grass roots community mutual aid efforts that occurred during the Grenfell crisis didn't achieve anything? The collectives in Spain in the mid-thirties that brought improvements to the lives of many Spanish working class people and peasants just didn't happen? And neither did the the achievements of the Common Ground Collective in America? How convenient. Those are just a few examples and there are many more.

You're an idiot and a sectarian ideologue.

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[Pickman's model]

Being serious, I think Corbyn has been too personally vilified to be able to win London mayor easily. He might need second preferences of lib dem types and wouldn't get them. John McDonnell might have more of a chance but only if he had some very media savvy people working with him.

You start by saying he wouldn't win easily and end by saying he wouldn't win. I think he could win but obvs it wouldn't be a piece of piss

 

[brogdale]

You start by saying he wouldn't win easily and end by saying he wouldn't win. I think he could win but obvs it wouldn't be a piece of piss

Hodge would certainly change her (recent) tune about the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Best of luck to the Great Boss Man! Policies I'd like from Mayor Corbyn:

• Defund the Met and replace it with a People's Militia
• Daily 3 minute hate broadcast aimed at London's worst gentrifying parasites (labour councils included)
• Increase the congestion charge for 4 x 4 drivers tenfold
• Develop a strategic partnership with the Communist Party of Cuba in the mutual interests of the toiling masses of London and Havana
• Mandatory veganism at all events organised by the Mayor's office

That would be an excellent iron fist start.

 

[SpookyFrank]

• Increase the congestion charge for 4 x 4 drivers to being shot in the head

CFY

 

[brogdale]

As a spectacle wearing Londoner I'm beginning to worry that I'll soon be marched off beyond Banstead to toil in the people's fields.

 

[Pickman's model]

Hodge would certainly change her (recent) tune about the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

Margaret Hodge, the paedophiles' friend?

 

[brogdale]

Margaret Hodge, the paedophiles' friend?

The very same.

 

[andysays]

I saw it in the Huff Post

Jeremy Corbyn's time is up this morning/last night.

That says that friends are urging him to run, it doesn't appear to say that he himself has confirmed he's intending to do so.

 

[Elpenor]

Well he seems to have already secured the urban block vote

 

[brogdale]

Well he seems to have already secured the urban block vote

Big Q is whether Binface would stand against JC?

 

[Supine]

Big Q is whether Binface would stand against JC?

Probably. But he doesn’t have a theme song.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Being serious, I think Corbyn has been too personally vilified to be able to win London mayor easily. He might need second preferences of lib dem types and wouldn't get them. John McDonnell might have more of a chance but only if he had some very media savvy people working with him.

Standing for mayor as an indie is a different game media-wise. No need to toe any party line. Come up with a clear list of things you want to get done and push them. Actually say something meaningful about unaffordable housing.

Win it easily? Maybe not. But beat the official labour candidate? Definitely. Once he's done that, are there really 50% of people willing to vote tory in London right now?

 

[two sheds]

He'd have a few volunteer helpers I'd have thought.

 

[Supine]

I think Corbyn could win as an independent. Does he want to?

 

[two sheds]

Might get a bigger allotment out of it.

 

[oryx]

In 2000, independent mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone won comfortably, beating the Labour candidate into third place. (I'm not sure the voting system was the same).

2000 London mayoral election - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[tim]

Jeremy corbyn is 100% the reason we ended up with Boris.

God knows who we would get for mayor if he ran,

Probably, Boris.

 

[tim]

Nah, Starmer would put up a LP candidate...so Johnson would walk it.

Whether or not Corbyn choses to stand, although it seems unlikely; the fact that there are two rounds of voting means that the left and right votes in the second round tend to coalesce around the the left and right candidate who get most votes in the first round. I don't really understand why after more than 20 years posters here don't understand how the system works.

However, given his antisemitic associates, I can't see him doing too well first time round.

 

[brogdale]

Whether or not Corbyn choses to stand, although it seems unlikely; the fact that there are two rounds of voting means that the left and right votes in the second round tend to coalesce around the the left and right candidate who get most votes in the first round. I don't really understand why after more than 20 years posters here don't understand how the system works.

However, given his antisemitic associates, I can't see him doing too well first time round.

Yeah. you're right.
An unthinking, throw away post that deserved to be corrected.

 

[hash tag]

Best of luck to the Great Boss Man! Policies I'd like from Mayor Corbyn:

• Defund the Met and replace it with a People's Militia
• Daily 3 minute hate broadcast aimed at London's worst gentrifying parasites (labour councils included)
• Increase the congestion charge for 4 x 4 drivers tenfold
• Develop a strategic partnership with the Communist Party of Cuba in the mutual interests of the toiling masses of London and Havana
• Mandatory veganism at all events organised by the Mayor's office

That would be an excellent iron fist start.

Stop the arms fairs has to be top of the list.
Also make London a Fare Trade city